impend

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“Decline and disaster impend, but my thoughts don’t linger there.”

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2017

But "she was cognizant of the crises that impend in all human breasts" and considered that "innocent intimacy was preferable to unacknowledged proximity."

From Time Magazine Archive

An international incident seemed to impend when the Rumanian ghouls incautiously admitted that they had pulled the corpse this way and that, in an effort to find contraband goods in the coffin.

From Time Magazine Archive

And still,—whatever years impend To witness Time a fickle friend, And Youth a dwindling fire,— I must adore till all years end My first love, Heart’s Desire.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch

With the field open for all producers, the danger of free shops with free men will impend always over the union that demands too much for its members.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates